Packet-switching WDM ring networks with a hotspot transporting unicast, multicast, and broadcast traffic are important components of high-speed metropolitan area networks. For an arbitrary multicast fanout traffic model with uniform, hotspot destination, and hotspot source packet traffic,we analyze themaximumachievable long-run average packet throughput, which we refer to as multicast capacity,...

Naval at sea (maritime tactical) networks are characterised by a dynamic, heterogeneous, and low-bandwidth environment. There is a critical need for Traffic Engineering (TE) mechanisms to support traffic prioritisation and resource optimisation in this environment. A desirable management service in this environment is end-to-end guaranteed bandwidth for critical application flows. Solutions suc...

We have developed several kinds of HV MOS devices whose device structures and doping levels in the offset regions differ depending on the specifications of the devices. We have developed the bi-directional HV MOS device (e.g., it can be used as a bi-directional MOS switch) with both drain and source offset regions, and we previously described its SPICE model [4] – [5] based on BSIM3v3 [1] – [3]...

A number of network configurations, in which pairs of nodes are connected by uni-directional links (UDLs), is increasing. For the QoS related reasons, it may be also advantageous to assume that a bi-directional link (BDL) is a set of two unidirectional links. Current routing protocols are designed for networks where all links are bi-directional. They fail to perform in networks with UDLs theref...

We consider the problem of redistributing data on homogeneous and heterogeneous ring of processors. The problem arises in several applications, each time after that a load-balancing mechanism is invoked (but we do not discuss the load-balancing mechanism itself). We provide algorithms that aim at optimizing the data redistribution, both for uni-directional and bi-directional rings, and we give ...

The complexities of various search algorithms are considered in terms of time, space, and cost of solution path. I t is known that breadth-first search requires too much space and depth-first search can use too much time and doesn't always find a cheapest path. A depth-first iteratiw-deepening algorithm is shown to be asymptotically optimal along all three dimensions for exponential pee searche...

When humans interface with machines, the control interface is usually passive and its response contains little information pertinent to the state of the environment. Usually, information flows through the interface from human to machine but not so often in the reverse direction. This work proposes a control architecture in which bi-directional information transfer occurs across the control inte...

In this paper, we propose a variant of Chord system that is resilient to routing attacks. By routing attacks, we mean the attacks which detour the looking up messages, aiming to disrupt the performance of data look-up systems by increasing the path length of queries. Chord routes messages uni-directionally and has no bi-directional edges. While its performance in the absence of routing attacks ...

A thin film giant magneto impedance (GMI) based on magnetic field sensor has been developed using electrodeposited Ni-Fe permalloy. Chemical composition, surface morphology, and magnetic properties of Ni-Fe permalloy were characterized as a function of plateup parameters, and process conditions were established to deposit a Ni-Fe thin film with a high permeability (~1000) and a low coercivity (...

By analyzing the spacing of genes on chromosomes, we find that transcriptional and RNA-processing regulatory sequences outside coding regions leave footprints on the distribution of intergenic distances. Using analogies between genes on chromosomes and one-dimensional gases, we constructed a statistical null model. We used this to estimate typical upstream and downstream regulatory sequence siz...